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Inspired in part by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s “Americans and the Holocaust” exhibition and supported by its historical resources, this documentary series examines the rise of Hitler and Nazism in Germany in the context of global antisemitism and racism, the eugenics movement in the United States, and race laws in the American south.

Starring
Peter Coyote, Ken Burns, Daniel Mendelsohn, Lynn Novick, Peter Hayes, Sarah Botstein, Deborah Lipstadt, Geoffrey C. Ward, Meryl Streep, Kevin Baker

Director
Lynn Novick

Episodes

  • S1 E1 The Golden Door (Beginnings - 1938)
  • S1 E2 Yearning to Breathe Free (1938 - 1942)
  • S1 E3 The Homeless, Tempest-Tossed (1942 - )
  • S0 E1 The Holocaust and Refugees, Lessons for Today
  • S0 E2 The Holocaust and Authoritarianism Today

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The U.S. and the Holocaust

Documentary

Inspired in part by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s “Americans and the Holocaust” exhibition and supported by its historical resources, this documentary series examines the rise of Hitler and Nazism in Germany in the context of global antisemitism and racism, the eugenics movement in the United States, and race laws in the American south.

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Released
2022
Runtime
2 hr 12 min